Gentle Touch Of The Tentacle

Author

Decided to stretch my vector skills...

Copyright 2016 Vladimir Kudrya, License: GPL-2.0+

Concept

Generic purple feel. Might need some color rebalance. I thought putting an actual tentacle in the picture would be boring, so I just left a mark.

Process

The background is formed by two diagonally overlapping elliptical gradients, one of which is on a smoothed out spiral.

Random-length semi-transparent lines serve as a filler on the left, so the image looks well on different aspect ratios.

The only sharp objects on the picture are logo, text and the mark of the tentacle. Everything else, including ghost copies of sharp objects, can be pre-rendered in small raster without scaling artifacts. This way hybrid raster+vector svg can be produced.

Work in progress! Current state: Generating assets in chosen colors. Additional variants of composition may follow.

For ideas and comments contact me on vladimir-csp at yandex.ru.

Previews

16x9 Wallpaper

GTotT_wallpaper_1366x768.png

4x3 Wallpaper

GTotT_wallpaper_1024x768.png

Renders

Main wallpaper image

Optimized hybrid SVG

GTotT_wallpaper.svg

Debian installer image

GTotT_installer.png

GRUB image

GTotT_grub.png

Syslinux image

GTotT_syslinux.png

Isolinux image

Possibly corrupted, needs checking, see render.sh

Isolinux RLE image

Should look like this:

GTotT_isolinux_preview.png

Source data

Main image source (Inkscape SVG)

Installer image source (Inkscape SVG)

GRUB image source (Inkscape SVG)

Render script (renders some of the assets from sources)